Right away in chapter 21 it says that the "...king and the duke turned out by-and-by looking pretty rusty; but after they jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal." By jumping overboard into the river the two had to have gone under water, and from Lit like a Professor, that symbolizes baptism. I don't really understand what they could be getting cleansed from because the book hasn't said a whole lot about their past, besides the lies of who they are maybe?
Then the two start talking about " ...all kinds of adventures they'd had in other times along the river." Maybe they used to be a whole new type of person a long time back and being back on the water, a place of refuge of society, they brought up the memories to share together.
I also thought it was odd/funny how Huck was describing the duke while he was tring to remember the speech for their play (Or come up with it is more like it). "...he went marchign up and down, thinking, and frowning...then he would hoist up his eyebrows; next he would squeeze his had on his forehead and stagger back...moan...sigh, and next he'd let on to drop a tear." The guy must have been quite emotional in trying to remember something he half put together himself. Then the best part was how he concluded all of the dukes emotions, and huck's reaction, into one sentance: "it was beautiful to see him." For soem odd reason that made me laugh because it seems to me that the duke was a complete disaster!
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